Challoner's words. "What you have to say concerns Edith?" The pause he made was infinitesimal in length, but it was long enough for a quick disclaimer. But no such disclaimer came. "I will hear it," came in reluctant finish. Brotherson took a step forward. His manner was as cold as the heart which lay like a stone in his bosom. "Will you pardon me if I ask you to rise?" said he. "I have my weaknesses too.英文原著 · 《Initials Only》
Mathias Erzberger will, of course, disclaim his letter. He will say it is a forgery. He will point to the protestations of German repentance and reform with which he sweated during April, 1919, and throughout the weeks preceding the delivery of the Treaty at Versailles. Perhaps he has done this already. All Germans will believe him--and some Americans.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
We ourselves said we were not out to abolish slavery, we disclaimed any such object, by our own words we cut the ground away from them.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
Indeed, she disclaimed the importance of veracity so imperiously that Severne was betrayed into saying, "Well, not much, between you and me; and I'll be bound I can explain it."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
But more than this. In the "House of Fame" he expressly disclaims having in his light and imperfect verse sought to pretend to "mastery" in the art poetical; and in a charmingly expressed passage of the "Prologue" to the "Legend of Good Women" he describes himself as merely following in the wake of those who have already reaped the harvest of amorous song, and have carried away the corn:--英文原著 · 《Chaucer》